M&J - Mindmap

So it's been really hard to approach and develop an idea at the moment, with several attempts on approaching different ideas, and so Diallo, Sahir and I decided that it might be easier to go our own separate ways instead.

With yet another fresh approach to this unit, and less then a week to develop the idea. I decided to take out the Nikon D90 dslr to hopefully give me some inspiration.

After a day or so of random filming, I noticed that I captured the essence of random strangers facial expressions, and this made me think about the current emotions these strangers were going through. So with this process of thought in mind I decided to create a mindmap and try work from that.

MindMap

The idea on emotional journeys came across as an approachable and interesting subject to work from. Emotion is something that we ALL experience all day, every day, and sometimes we even go on these emotional journeys. Consisting of emotion after emotion after emotion. Whether these are emotions we want to feel or dont want to feel, we don't tend to talk much about them because we tend to focus on what we're doing and thinking rather than how we're feeling.

Article I read on http://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2014/07/18/the-8-myths-about-emotions-that-are-holding-us-back/

THE CONCEPT

The concept is to create something that will allow people to share how they are feeling (emotionally) and why they are feeling those emotions.

WHY?

Hopefully this will allow people to discuss into more depth on there feelings. What I hope to achieve from this is to give people a different perspective of sharing emotions to help relieve themselves from the emotions that they keeping bottled up.

Article I read on http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/mag/psycho/d4488/c108605.html

 I want people to start becoming aware of their emotions, and to take the time to identify why you are feeling the current emotion your feeling especially if it's a negative emotion. Accepting and knowing how you feel makes it easier to put them into words, and makes it easier to talk about the emotions.

HOW?

The idea of having two booth like places being available for people to walk into came across when I was mind mapping out ideas, and both booth like places would be located within two different locations. For example I would have a booth at UCA's SU and another booth located within another university. In these booths would contain a single sofa of some sort, and in front of the sofa would sit a display screen and webcam. Both booths would be connected to one another through the webcam and display screen. This would allow the two people in the booth to talk to one another, expressing and releasing all bottled up emotions.

Example of a possible booth

I know it would also be a good idea to hide ones identity when entering the booth, as a lot of people would still be shy to express emotions knowing the person on the other side can see their face, and so being able to cover their identity fully would allow everyone to interact and express their emotions through the booth.

WHERE?

Both booths would be allocated an area that would easily be seen by passer-by's. One location that is in mind for one of the booths would be to place it with the UCA'S student union, allowing all UCA students to interact and release bottled up emotions, and as we all know students have emotions thrown at them left, right and centre so placing the booth here would be a good stress relief to some extent.  For the other booth no location has come to mind at the moment but I hope to find a suitable spot for the booth.